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Author: Super Famicom Guy Japan has a long history of well-designed video game box art. From character design to packaging and advertising, the Japanese have honed their artwork skills throughout the boom years of the 1980’s. Fast forward to the ’90s, the Super Famicom reigned supreme and publishers were …

Author: John Legendoffzelda Someone on the Twitter account of Internet personality Egoraptor detrimentally called Konami’s Super Nintendo beat-em-up games “quarter munchers”. Okay, they aren’t wrong, but that person kind of misrepresents a key idea about the way Konami made games back then. Konami wasn’t like Nintendo or Capcom back …

Author: Mongunzoo I may be a SNES fanboy, but that does not mean that I can’t recognize greatness across the aisle when I see it. So let’s face it; when it comes to the shoot-em’ up genre, the ball was not in Nintendo’s court during the 16-bit generation … A …